School Yard Games
11
Stackhouse Blues
A/N: Okay so I promised answers. . . next couple of chappies critical to the story. . . Last chance to guess what's going on. . .
Enjoy JoxX
It was gone six, I notice Miss Stackhouse office door ajar and the light still on. Pushing it gently open, it revealed Sookie with her head on the desk her hands clasped on top of her head. I cleared my throat, letting her know I was there. She immediately popped her head up, I could see she had been crying. She hastily wiped her face.
"I didn't hear you," she said startled.
"Are you okay?"
"Fine, fine," she answered too quickly, with a fake smile.
"I am sorry." I stated.
She looked at me confused, "what for?"
I sat down on one of the chairs in front of her desk, "For everything." I smiled, half a smile, my long legs stretched out in front of me.
"Wow that's a lot, I'd offer you a strong drink but it's illegal for me to buy liquor in the state of Louisiana," she sighed.
"You look like you could use one yourself," I smiled at her, God she was beautiful.
She sighed again, "ye-ah that would solve all my problems getting shit faced, when everyone is counting on me, that would be a real smart move."
"I am sorry. I didn't mean to make things harder for you, you know with the Pelts... and..and I am sorry I kissed you, it was totally inappropriate and so unprofessional, you're a student. I am sorry if I've made you hate me." Ramble much?
"God! I don't hate you, I don't blame you and for your information it was me that kissed you," she looked down at her lap.
"Thank you I feel it's more than I deserve, I've felt like a real douche these last few weeks. So what it's worth I am sorry. Rough day?"
"You could say that, I've got a lot on my plate and this week kinda sucks big ones."
I laughed at her language it was easy to forget she was just eighteen, "How so?"
"It's kinda of a very black week in the Stackhouse family history. My parents died nine years ago. . . today as it happens, my Aunt Linda died this week also just a three of days after my Mom and Dad, my little cousin Hunter disappeared four years ago totally unrelated but in this week too... incidentally it was also this was the week I tested at genius level in age ten and my brother was diagnosed as bi polar a few years back... so finding the meaning of life in the bottom of a bottle sounds quite appealing. If I didn't have so many counting on me I probably would," she chanced a glance at me, sighing. Sighing there had been a lot of that going around lately.
"You can talk to me you know... about anything. I am grateful for how hard you work for the school. You don't have to do it all alone you know with the school, I am here now," I was going for soothing, but I think I just pulled of patronising- fuck.
She rested her elbows on the desk running her hands threw her hair she blew out a huge mouth full of air. "I am sorry I don't mean to be disrespectful, but what's gonna happen when you move on to the next school. I work hard here because I need too, they -need –me. This is my town so pardon me when I say I prefer to take care of it all myself, besides its all my fault. Anyway I got the girls and the guys so it's not all on me," her eye's had filled with tears, suddenly she looked her eighteen years of age, I just wanted to comfort her, tell it would be okay. But didn't know what it was, I didn't know how to fix it but by God I wanted to know.
She had gotten up and taken her purse began heading for the door, "It's not your fault and you are not alone," I said reaching out for her but she yanked her hand away from me.
"Urgh that's the problem I am never alone, as for it not being my fault you don't know what you're talking about...urgh I am soo sorry, I am tired and over emotional," she dabbed the corner of her eye with a tissue, "just ignore me," she headed out the door.
I sat in the chair running through what Sookie had said to me, what was her fault? Surely she didn't blame the whole towns freakiness on herself? Did she see it as her job to look out for everyone? Damn it, she was right I would move on, they would all still be here.
I decided to go to the gym to lift some weights, I longed to blow of some steam . I stayed for two hours by the time I left my body ached my mind was clearer, the night had closed in and darkness had fallen. I picked up take away on my way home. The rain lashed down as I rushed from my car to my house, a figure was hunched on the porch shivering- Sookie.
"Sookie?" Her teeth just chattered as she looked up at me. "Oh my God are you okay?" she shook her head- no. I opened the door throwing my stuff inside I picked her up carrying her inside placing her on the side of the bath, I pull a big towel of the rail and covered her in it. She was shaking like a leaf and dripping water.
"Sookie? speak to me,"
"Quinny is dead...oh God, I didn't have anywhere else to go," she sobbed.
I pried her hands away from her body to hold them as I crouched down in front of her, moving them out of the way revealed her t shirt was covered in blood, "Oh my God your bleeding."
"It's nothing," she said, shaking with the cold, maybe shock or all of the above.
I gingerly lifted up the t-shirt to reveal a stab wound, lifting the t-shirt higher it revealed three more, "Fuck, SHIT!"
"Sookie look at me," she lifted her eye's to mine, "I have to get you to the hospital, you're in shock." She was in shock and I was fucking shaking like a leaf now, freaking out.
"It's nothing, I'll heal."
"No Sookie your bleeding out, we have to go right NOW!"
"I said No," she growled. "I needed a place to think, I'll be okay I promise."
I gulped and took a deep breath. "Who did this to you?"
She shook her head, like she knew but didn't want to tell me, her eyes wide and wild. Right then and there I decided I'd be there for her, no matter what, she could depend on me, I'd help her. I'd help the whole damn town, if I had too. Isn't that what I had signed up for to defend my country and its people?
"I am not going anywhere, let me in I want to help you, pleeease,"
"If they find me here, they'll kill you, I..I can't... I can't have that on me too. That's why I can't go home. . ."
"Who will kill me? Sookie trust me. Trust. Me."
"So you can sell us out to the FBI?" tears streaked her face mixing with the rain water, her huge eyes bigger somehow with such vulnerability there.
I closed my eyes and sighed, leaning my head on her shoulder just touching. I was really gonna do this, "You know?" I asked as I looked her in the eye.
She nodded her head, she knew- Fuck. "Ms Ravenscroft too, although she's NSA," she said quietly.
My jaw clenched, "So you know I can protect you, please tell me?"
"We just want to live in peace."
"Sookie please, you can trust me, I won't sell you out, I swear. I swear on my life."
Suddenly Sookie sat up, looking around, her eyes wilder than before, scared, "Get your clothes off, get in the shower just do it." She hissed.
Sookie's head was darting around she got up and ran to the front door returning with my take away food and gym bag throwing them to the floor "in the shower," she snarled.
I complied switching it on and striping, Sookie adverted her eye's she pumped the soap by the sink lathering up her hands, "bend forward," she commanded, I did as she asked she lathered my hair wiping the rest of the soap on my body, over my chest.
"Don't wash it off, answer the door with it on, don't react to anything even how surprising." Her tone reminded me of a military commander, like the good solider I was, I couldn't help but take her commands. My questions would be answered though, when we got through this.
I looked at her wondering what the hell was going on, a second later there was a wrapping on the front door that sounded like a battering ram. I swallowed. The knocking persisted, Sookie's eyes locked with mine, they were scared. Jesus.
I looked at her wondering what the hell was going on, a second later there was a wrapping on the front door that sounded like a battering ram. I swallowed. The knocking persisted, Sookie's eyes locked with mine, they were scared. . .
Sorry to stop it there, but the next chapter works better if answers aren't chopped into. . . They will all be there... so review if you want them sooner- Mawhahaha!.